Jacob is playing Upwards basketball. At first he was very excited. Now, not so much. What is sad is that he has the ability to be a good player but I think he lacks the enthusiasm. It's just not his LOVE, not like baseball. Either way, I still enjoy going to his games and practicing taking pictures. Here's one that I took recently.
I love how everyone is blurry except Jacob. Which is what I was trying to do. I took a photography class at church this past fall and this is one of the techniques that we learned. I took him a couple of weeks ago to a park here in town to get some pictures before he loses any more teeth. It was just me and him and I got some really good pictures, so much so that I had American Shutterbug print a 16x20 of this
And it was just in time. He lost another tooth Tuesday.
Madison is getting so big. She has tee-teed in the potty several times and sometimes she will volunteer to go on her own. Which means that she is running thru the house pulling her clothes off yelling "I tee-tee in potty" then followed by "I want candy!". She has started talking more in sentences now. One of my favorites is "I hab it" (translation: "I have it" or "Let me have it"). She still loves Jacob and plays just as rough with him as he does her. I wanted to take a picture of Jacob the other night after he lost his tooth and she had to have her picture taken, too.
As you can see, I am working on the look of the blog. That was one of the reasons that I haven't posted in a while. I know it sounds crazy but everytime I thought about posting all I could think of was how I didn't like it's looks and then I would get distracted. So I figured if I could design a Christmas card then I could design a banner, too. So here it is. I am still trying to figure out how to get the picture to not look so pixelly( if that's a word). I think I have a program that will help but until then this is what I will stick with. Maybe later I can try to design my whole page. I have it in my head but just don't have the know-how to produce it.
